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Zulfikar Ghose
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Author : Mansoor Abbasi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-06-18
Zulfikar Ghose written by Mansoor Abbasi and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-18 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In 1963, Zulfikar Ghose received a special award from the E. C. Gregory Trust that was judged by T. S. Eliot, Henry Moore, Herbert Read and Bonamy Dobrée. A year earlier, in an issue devoted to the newly emerging Commonwealth literature, the Times Literary Supplement featured Zulfikar Ghose as the most prominent poet from the former British colonies by conspicuously printing three of his poems spread across half a page. By the time he was featured in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Ghose had been accorded major status as a writer of international repute: the editors of The Review of Contemporary Fiction noted that “Zulfikar Ghose has both ranked with and outranked several of the best English language writers in England and America,” and went on to present him as “a unique figure in contemporary literature,” whose “evolution across languages and national boundaries” was comparable to Conrad, Nabokov and Beckett. In spite of receiving such notable attention, Ghose has remained a marginal presence and, in fact, an “untouchable,” among writers accorded a world-class status. Of the several reasons suggested for Ghose’s marginalization by scholars of world literature and post-colonial studies, the most significant one is that his oeuvre resists categorisation. For Ghose, to use Proust’s phrases, “Quality of language and the beauty of an image are the heart of great writing.” Ghose’s work is full of meditative reverberations and has a fastidious style that scintillates the reader’s mind with its brilliance. His genius lies in the construction of a language that is lyrical and full of vivid imagery. He captures the images of his native Punjab as well as the South American landscape, and imbues the air with the fragrance of Amazon rainforest while his prose sends a shiver between the “shoulder blades.” In his experimentation with form, he “make[s] it new,” to use Pound’s phrase. His literary journey from the imitation of nineteenth-century realism to his most experimental and ambitious works like Hulme’s Investigations into the Bogart Script and The Triple Mirror of the Self reflects his wide range of experimentation with form and style. This book investigates the structural patterns in the novels of Zulfikar Ghose that give each of his works its peculiar aesthetic design. While on the one hand, this work notes his role as a pioneer among South Asian writers of the post-colonial era, on the other hand, his novels are examined in the critical framework erected by the writer himself with its emphasis on style: that is the central concern of this study.
The B S Johnson Zulfikar Ghose Correspondence
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Author : Vanessa Guignery
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-04-01
The B S Johnson Zulfikar Ghose Correspondence written by Vanessa Guignery and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Literary Collections categories.
From 1959 to 1973, the writers B. S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose regularly wrote letters to each other in which they discussed their own work and literary preoccupations. They exchanged early drafts of poems, short stories, plays and novels, and their correspondence contains detailed comments and extended analyses of these texts, as well as illuminating reflections on literature, criticism, poetics and aesthetics. Though much of the correspondence is an extended literary discussion, it also contains moments of personal revelation, jokes and anecdotes so that the letters, with their surprising asides, are enjoyable to read, even as they inform with their biographical and intellectual content. The two authors also frequently refer to the university poetry journals and literary magazines they contributed to or edited, and they write about the poetry meetings they attended and the writers they met or read. Their involvement in literary groups and their dealings with publishers, editors and agents are indicative of the publishing mechanisms of the time. This correspondence thus not only provides insight into the work of both B. S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose, but also conjures up a comprehensive picture of the London literary world of the 1960s.
The Incredible Brazilian
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Author : Zulfikar Ghose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-18
The Incredible Brazilian written by Zulfikar Ghose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with Fiction categories.
The Beautiful Empire is Brazil and in the second half of the nineteenth century the money is growing on trees - the rubber trees whose precious sap is wanted all over the world. Drawn by rumours of fabulous wealth to be won there, Europeans pour into Amazonia. Hardheaded businessmen and romantic adventurers come to make their fortune in the New World and others are fleeing disgraces in the Old. And with them come their pretty daughters, their ambitious wives and their whores. In the thick of it is Gregorio Peixoto da silva Xavier, the Incredible Brazilian. While laughing at the extravagance of Europeans and incensed by their insularity he grows rich as they do, except that only a small fraction of his fortunes comes from rubber. As proprietor of a fleet of luxurious floating brothels, Gregorio becomes one of the richest men in Manaos and also the most powerful, for there is no magnate whose secrets are hidden from him. He watches the fabulous city of Manaos, with its marble opera house and its countless mansions, rise from the jungle. He mingles with the Europeans who, intoxicated by their success, wash their feet in champagne and send their laundry to Paris and at last, when the crash comes, he sees them scurrying home bankrupt while the jungle reasserts its savage rule. But Gregorio is never just an observer - adventures, amorous and otherwise, are always cropping up. In this incarnation he survives the Paraguayan war through the good offices of the celebrated Mrs Lynch, Irish mistress of the enemy president; on a brief journey into the interior he is taken for a god and involved in a revolution; he meets and marries Claire, the greatest love of all his lives. He narrowly escapes a match with priggish Johanna and carries on a perpetual war with Gloria, the passionate redhead who cannot decide whether to love or hate him. And, almost inadvertently he helps the mysterious Mr Wickham to bring about the downfall of the Brazilian rubber trade. Praise: 'The Beautiful Empire is like some richly coloured collage of velvets, braids and sequins, being pretty, exotic, sad and endlessly exuberant' The Financial Times 'This is an unusually intelligent historical romp ... and effectively evocative' The Daily Telegraph
The Violent West Poems
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Author : Zulfikar Ghose
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan
Release Date : 1972
The Violent West Poems written by Zulfikar Ghose and has been published by MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Poetry categories.
Selected Poems
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Author : Zulfikar Ghose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Selected Poems written by Zulfikar Ghose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Literary Criticism categories.
A former cricket and hockey correspondent on the Observer, Zulfikar Ghose is now Professor of English at the University of Austin at Texas, and is widely regarded as Pakistan's foremost English-language poet. This selection draws on verse written since 1959 and combines highly acclaimed workwith material never previously published.
The Fiction Of Reality
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Author : Zulfikar Ghose
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1983-06-18
The Fiction Of Reality written by Zulfikar Ghose and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-06-18 with Fiction categories.
Figures Of Enchantment
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Author : Zulfikar Ghose
language : en
Publisher: Peach Publishing
Release Date : 2017-05-12
Figures Of Enchantment written by Zulfikar Ghose and has been published by Peach Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-12 with Fiction categories.
No matter how many times he did his sums, Filipe Gamboa's salary never amounted to his daydream. He would always want more than he possessed. He longed for a great fortune not only for a luxury apartment and a Mercedes Benz but also to ensure his daughter, Mariana, had the best possible future with the best possible education. His misfortune is to be passed over at work, and then arrested at a political demonstration. After which he is put in a small boat and abandoned in the ocean . . . But when death seems inevitable, another world beckons. New lives can be swapped for old, and Gamboa on his mysterious island sanctuary can create an illusion that the intervening years have not passed, and that his idea of the past is merely a foreknowledge of the future. With poetic insight and surreal logic Zulfikar Ghose depicts a universe where individuals are inextricably bound by the perversities of fate, able only to dream escape.
Crump S Terms
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Author : Zulfikar Ghose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-11
Crump S Terms written by Zulfikar Ghose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-11 with Fiction categories.
Set in the swinging London of the 1960s, Crump's Terms evokes that time of the exploding popular culture through the life of its remarkable hero. An English teacher at a London Secondary Modern school, Crump presides over a class of adolescents. In the course of his working day, his narrative is presented as a continuous stream of memories, associations and obsessive literary quotations that cut into the present with cinematic deftness. The nouvelle vague cinema, which was important in the 1960s, the burgeoning popular culture and Pop Art, the whole cultural environment of the time is the background of the novel in which Crump's narrative, often mimicking those styles, is created. Then there is the story of Crump's wife Frieda, a South African at the time of apartheid whose mother has defected to Communist East Germany and the story of her own apparent defection. But are these stories and Crump's apparent memories real or are they projections of scenarios in Crump's mind? Is he, tormented by the present, making up nouvelle vague and literary images to create a distracting fiction for himself? Is his whole life a fictive invention of his mind? Then there are his spontaneous lectures to his students uttered as an incisive commentary about the state of Europe; there is the philosophical underpinning-what it is all about; and there is Zulfikar Ghose's remarkable prose that is imagistic, witty, and original. This is a novel that produces the Nabokovian authentic vibrancy of sheer literary pleasure. It captures its time, the Sixties, and yet it is timeless.
50 Poems
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Author : Zulfikar Ghose
language : en
Publisher: OUP Pakistan
Release Date : 2012-09
50 Poems written by Zulfikar Ghose and has been published by OUP Pakistan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 30 Selected and the 20 New that comprise 50 POEMS have been chosen to present a concise and representative volume of Zulfikar Ghose' poetry for the general reader interested in Pakistan's premier English-language poet and for scholars specialising in contemporary English poetry and post-colonial literature.
A New History Of Torments
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Author : Zulfikar Ghose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-04
A New History Of Torments written by Zulfikar Ghose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-04 with Fiction categories.
A New History of Torments is a work of extraordinary imaginative scope by a writer at the height of his powers-a novel in which allegory and action, illusion and disillusion, passion and suspense blend into a complex and fascinating plot that could have been devised by a cunning fate ... or by a master novelist. The story begins with a wealthy South American ranch owner, Jorge Rojas Jiminez, and the curse he brings on his land when he leaves his wife of two decades for a young and greedy mistress. As drought withers the crops, vampire bats ravage the herds, and the earth dies, Rojas' two grown-up children, Rafael and Violeta, leave home for adventures of their own with the aging revolutionary-adventurer Mark Kessel. Embarking on one last extravagant exploit, Kessel has agreed to deliver two million dollars' worth of gold bullion for the revolution, in return for an ancient map, which, it is claimed, points the way to El Dorado. The map spells misfortune for all who possess it, for all who seek lost worlds and a lost treasure of gold. The combination of Rojas' crime against his family and Kessel's blundering onto his ranch to save his own skin affects, first innocently and then with an increasingly horrifying inevitability, the lives of several other characters: Rafael and Violeta; Violeta's friend Madeleine; and Jason, Kessel's nephew far away in Pernambuco on the Atlantic, become blindly committed to actions over which they seemingly have no control. A destiny that is comical and hideous, lyrical and tragic, pulls them into a fantastic flow of events. Enchanting and exotic as a dream, A New History of Torments unfolds its mysteries and constant surprises with all the pace and excitement of a suspense novel. And yet, by its scope and the quality of the writing, it has the inevitability and beauty of great art.